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good morning guys after we tested the new Polo GTI a few days ago she probably saw in our last video today we want to show you it’s bigger brother the golf 7 GTI facelift we know that actually the golf 8 is basically right around the corner it will probably be announced early this year and then like afterwards the GTI won’t before either but we just wanted to take the chance to show you the 7.5 GTI once more actually the performance increase meant is in our shop for quite a while so we developed the product we just wanted to show it to you in the video and also which is kind of interesting this car already has the OPF or the gpf which a lot of even facelift cars don’t have because it’s like the new requirement yes so Danny what do you think about the Gulf 7 in general as GTI do you like it or it is a great car of all definitely but I think it’s the same situation as with the Polo GTI it always depends what you’re looking for I mean direct competition is the you and I are 13 for example for example basically the costs are very similar both hot hatches both 2-liter turbo and I mean in stock the the performance there is a little different but especially tuned it’s very similar but still the difference between the cars is like crazy huge maybe we should mention before that is the GTI performance version a sure with 180 kilowatt in stock so it is 245 horsepower like VW thing but we measured the car with a little bit more actually we measured the car with 2016 9 horsepower in stock also 386 Newton meters and official figure is very 970 meters as those slightly above the figures with the tedious black installed we have now of unit six horsepower and 448 Newton meters of torque and also for for German or Austrian clients we do have a certification for the golf 7 GTI for the none of opf version the OPF version will be available pretty soon yeah the difference between the cars is like crazy huge because overall hands-down the GTI is much more refined I mean the interiors nicer it’s lighter than the i30 n and to be honest like the power delivery is smoother you just have a power curve which goes up all the way instead of the right I thought the N where you have kind of a plateau yeah that is what I would like to mention why there is a difference between those cars and specifically the 707 GTI or a 7.5 GTI holds the torque way longer and then I 30 and on that I 13 you have a peak at the bidding in it drops down in higher rpms and they call 7 GTI hold it until you got the same torque basically from 1800 rpms up to 5,000 rpm you have to say newton-meters so you have like 448 Newton meters of tests available right now with the GTS black so that is like that that is what makes a difference between those cars yeah absolutely so while this car definitely has less performance in stock I wouldn’t be surprised if with GTS black it would actually be faster than our 30 M yeah I’m pretty sure all cerf is just better at the higher rpm part yeah and this one got the DSG but which also helped which also helps a little bit in time but I also want to mention is as you said in the beginning it really depends on what you want because like objectively this is the better car there’s just no way around it it’s more refined it’s with the DSG probably faster it has more features and so on and so on I mean of course it’s like this one is like 10000 euros more expensive than our f3n because it isn’t as refined it’s like loud it pops and bangs the power delivery yes it’s weird because it has like this huge torque curve at the beginning and then it kind of dies off a little bit but if you don’t drive on the Autobahn all the time but instead if you want to have fun on a country road or something it’s just crazy fun because you put the pedal in third gear and it shoots forward which this one doesn’t even though it’s faster if you really rev it it’s really personal preference I would say like if you’re looking for fun car with pops and bangs and it’s a little bit noisy then you maybe should go for the i30 and but if you look for in like in davie which is really fast above GTI is the way to go I would say and that’s something which I find quite like confusing because people especially in the internet also in our YouTube comments they always seem to fight against each other which car need a strong opinion it’s like I mean I drove both of the cars I even owned go 60 gi8 Edition 35 a few years ago and all the cars are great it just depends on what’s your personal preference and yeah this one is faster than a 30 and but so what if you like the i30 and more you buy it and that’s it but yeah this one is faster no discussion there maybe that’s why it’s like 10,000 euros more expensive you know I would love to see people just accepting other cars and just drive the car they like most personally and don’t 8th opinion from from other people and next up we’re gonna do the actual acceleration times yes so basically we can always like state that performance-wise on the dyno the OPF doesn’t really have any negative effects for several other cars it did have a little negative effect on acceleration even though the performance was similar on the dyno but basically we’re on the way to the Autobahn to find out exactly that so let’s go so we’re done with our measurements on the Ottoman the conditions are they really suck they really honestly really suck to be honest we have rain it’s called the traffic was really really bad actually you guys saw like 30 seconds combined and for us it took I think three hours to get those two measurements either it’s like the slope is too big or you have some idiot pulling to the left lane it’s not as much fun as you guys would think to do those measurements believers yeah especially you it’s really accurate measurements so we’re looking at the slope if it’s uphill or downhill and we are just taking measurements that are like basically it’s straight so we can compare x and x are really accurate finally we measured sometimes 100 to 200 in stock we had seventeen point nine seconds so I would say time we expected and with the GTS black the best time we had was fourteen point one but actually the iPhone like didn’t record the measurement which sucks but we have the measurement on the draggy which we’re gonna show you somewhere in the video now somewhere around here you can see it yeah and the best recorded video recorded measurement was fourteen point four seconds exactly which is just in the video which is still in improvement by eight point five seconds around that area and also what is really important to keep in mind this is already the Golf GTI performance version with the OPF install under better conditions I’m pretty sure we could get times like thirteen point nine stable fourteen times are definitely possible yeah but as you said I think if the the measurements are solid it’s okay and also as you mentioned it’s the OPF model which is kind of new and we personally didn’t find any tuning measurements with an opf model yet because it’s just new on the market the whole opf team has kind of kind of a mystery because on the dyno they always like perform as well as the non ho PF models but on acceleration runs not only with like a Golf GTI but also with them to competition and stuff you always get slightly worse measurements than without opf so we’re gonna find out at some point why this is the case also I have to keep in mind that the Gulf seven GTI basically the model is on the market for almost a decade it’s like for a really long time and if you keep this in mind it’s quite impressive that it still performs this good in comparison to other models ok so then that’s it for the Golf GTI for this week and as always if you want to know anything about the video write us a comment if you liked the video leave us a like and see you next week guys